From: Reuben Thomas via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 20741@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a period
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 15:28:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOnWdoj82uy8kEnrkkH6uFLKsUaC9+M5XiTxA_OFJjyiknOPYA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735klu3pz.fsf@gnus.org>
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 10:45, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:
>
> > To be honest, I'm not sure Emacs can do much here. As far as I can
> > tell, hunspell doesn't cope well with characters like "." that
> > normally are non-word characters, but *can* occur in a word.
> >
> > Relatedly, see: https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell/issues/361
>
> So it's a problem on the hunspell side, and not because Emacs is
> considering the "." to be a non-word character? (I haven't tried to
> debug what's going on.)
For natural language, yes.
There's also a problem in common abbreviations like "i.e.", which is
> considered as the words "i" and "e", apparently...
>
This is indeed the case, and it's not normally a problem because Emacs does
not spellcheck words so short.
I was wondering whether Emacs could query the backend speller whether it
> had the word "foo." in the dictionary before squiggly-lining "foo", but
> I'm very unfamiliar with how these functions work.
>
It could!
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-05 14:06 bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a period Reuben Thomas
2015-06-05 14:08 ` bug#20741: Workaround Reuben Thomas
2015-06-05 19:23 ` bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a period Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-05 21:42 ` Reuben Thomas
2015-06-06 6:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-06 9:35 ` Reuben Thomas
2015-06-06 9:38 ` Reuben Thomas
2015-06-06 10:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-06 10:08 ` Reuben Thomas
2015-06-06 10:11 ` Reuben Thomas
2015-06-06 10:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-06 9:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-13 9:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-13 12:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-13 21:33 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-14 10:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-14 13:08 ` martin rudalics
2022-02-14 15:28 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-02-14 13:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-14 13:43 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-14 15:07 ` Stephen Berman
2022-02-14 15:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-14 15:27 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-14 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-14 17:01 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-14 18:08 ` martin rudalics
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